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Google Replaced Cache Link With Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

After Google has angered tons of SEOs and searchers over removing the cache link from the search result snippets, Google decided several months later to add links to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This will give you snapshots in time of what that webpage looked like, but it is not powered by Google.

As a reminder, in January, Google dropped the cache link from the search results page - I should note, the cache is still working right now (it will go away at some point). But the link from Google Search results snippets to that cache link is gone. Google tested dropping it in December and then dropped it officially in January. Read more